Aiden's 9 Month Birthday

He sleeps! We looked and looked for something wrong with Aiden to explain why he wasn't sleeping and in the end it was just acid reflux and some good old sleep training - training him to get up every 2 hours by his parents! The first big step was the Prevacid. Within 8 nights of starting him on it he was only getting up twice at night. So we took the next logical step and cut out one of those two feedings. It took a couple of weeks to get him to agree that he needed to give up the feeding but eventually he saw it our way. We do still need to work on that one last feeding...

Aiden's new party trick: pulling himself up to standing! Yay - one step closer to walking. This too has a story... at his 9 month check up we saw a new pediatrician and she was really worried that Aiden wasn't pulling himself up yet. I had not met anyone else that had a concern about it but of course all it took was that one person to get me worried. So we pulled out the Leap Frog table toy that we bought a couple of months ago. Within two days he was pulling himself up on the toy so that he could play with all the cool buttons!! I was so happy, and Aiden was happy too because he really loves that toy. It is one of the few he plays with every day.

Aiden is eating a bottle really well. He eats five 6-8oz bottles a day. He is also doing really well with solid foods - he eats a breakfast of yogurt, lunch is a jar of food and lots of cheerios, and dinner is 2-3 jars of food and as much solid food as we can get him to eat! Oh and Jason likes to sneak him Hershey's Chocolate Syrup whenever I'm not around...